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John Henry Newman,
Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Literature not only illuminated another’s experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?
We live in an era of wealth and overabundance, but how bleak it is. There is “neither art nor philosophy,” Fukuyama says. All that’s left is the “perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.”
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
existential crisis. But the school wanted to do better,
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
But it also feels true that the contemporary novel is having a crisis of morality. Not in the Aesop’s fable sort of way. But in the way that a novel is supposed to capture the specific, particular instability of human relations, and in that instability, it captures the truth about what it is to live in the world. And it feels more and more that whe
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that depth of mindlessness which calls itself the modern mind.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel
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